“60% of US enterprise-level organisations lack encryption strategies”: Q&A with Extenua CEO Steve Visconti

Steve Visconti, president and CEO at US-based cloud security provider Extenua, talks cyber security in our latest Q&A snapshot from the US market.

Originally published on SecuritySolutionsWatch.com, this interview covers the company’s Cloud2Drive and  SilverSHield solutions, as well as its role in IoT, mobile access and BYOD.

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com:  Yahoo, DropBox, LinkedIn… the daily headlines unfortunately remind us just how vulnerable we are in today’ constant threat environment and the bad guys come in many forms: foreign governments, sophisticated hacker groups, and ‘insiders’ among others.  What is your perspective, Steve, regarding the unique value proposition that Extenua brings to the table in today’s IoT, mobility and BYOD environment?

Steve Visconti: Cyber attacks have risen into the many millions of attacks per year, yet security continues to be perfunctory to the organization’s overall data strategy.  It is astonishing to me that some analysts estimate that 60% of U.S. enterprise organization DO NOT have encryption strategies applied across their organization.

Hackers and their tools are very sophisticated including some with automation and its coming from many fronts you just listed.  This is precisely why an organization or enterprise must have the most secure and hardened environments possible.

Hackers and bad actors will eventually probe and eventually move on to the easier targets.  Don’t be that easy target when tools like Cloud2Drive are so easy to implement and non-disruptive.

Cyberattacks have risen into the many millions of attacks per year, yet security continues to be perfunctory to the organizations overall data strategy.  It is astonishing to me that some analysts estimate that 60% of U.S. enterprise organization DO NOT have encryption strategies applied across their organization.

Hackers and their tools are very sophisticated including some with automation and its coming from many fronts you just listed.  This is precisely why an organization or enterprise must have the most secure and hardened environments possible.  Hackers and bad actors will eventually probe and eventually move on to the easier targets.  Don’t be that easy target when tools like Cloud2Drive are so easy to implement and non-disruptive.

Click here for the complete interview with Steve Visconti on SecuritySolutionsWatch.

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